SKETCHING FORTIFICATIONS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 36, 11 August 1914, Page 8

SKETCHING FORTIFICATIONS

THREE JAPANESE SHOT. (Received August 11, 12.25 p.m.) TIENTSIN. 10th August. Three Japanese caught sketching the fortification? at TEing-Tv were ehot by Germans.

GERMAN RESERVISTS FOUND WORKING ON A BRITISH WARSHIP. (Received August 11, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, 10th August. German Naval Reservists were found working on H.M.S. Zealandia, which was equipping for 6ea. KAISER'S NEPHEW A PRISONER (Received August 11, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, 10th August. Prince George, the Kaiser's nep.hew, is a prisoner in Brussels. BELGRADE BOMBARDMENT RESUMED. (Received August 11, 12.10 p.m.) NISH, 10th August. Heavy siege artillery has resumed the bombardment of Belgrade. VALUABLE SUGGESTION INOCULATION OF THE TROOPS. (X IBLEGBAPH— SPECIAL THB POST.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Dr. Pearson, bacteriologist at the Christchurch Hospital, has offered to provide anti-typhoid vaccine to inoculate the Expeditionary Force against disease. He calls attention to the great advances that have been made in the immunising of troops against disease in foreign coun-< tries. The troops in South Africa suffered terribly from enteric, 'which is really typhoid fever, and some effort should be made to fortify them against such heavy _ losses, in the present campaign. Anti-typhoid vaccine has been in Use for twelve or thirteen years, but the improvements in the preparation of it make it much. more valuable than it was a year or two ago. It is an emulsion of dead tyjjhoid bacilli, and for perfect preventive inoculation two doses of 500 and 1000 millions are usually given at intervals of ten days. At the first dos© the patient gets a certain amount of fever and reaction, but no reaction follows the second dose. Almost perfect protection, against the disease is given for about two years. In Ladysmith, of 1700 inoculated two per cent, contracted the disease, and of 10,500 not inoculated 14 per cent, contracted the disease. The injection is Usually given in the arm. The use of the vaccine is not advised when an epidemic is present, as the patients resistance is lowered to a certain extent during inoculation, and he is more likely to contract typhoid. , Local medical men tirge that the troops should be inoculated, preferably on the boat, where there would be plenty of time to recover from the effects.